All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.
-Pascal, Pensees
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Paradoxically, the ability to be alone is the condition for the ability to love.
-Erich Fromm, The Art of Loving
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I can sit for hours provided there is internet n laptop
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I can do that netflix
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Somebody wrote a poem based on that quote, and asked the readers to imagine various explorers trapped in their rooms, regarding the drapes. I think the poet was Billy Collins.
You mean you can't have a mobile phone in the room? Pretty horrifying.








